Nicole Clare Fraser, in her show titled Making Space, will be opening at DAOR Contemporary on Thursday 8 February 2023.
“Please join us on the evening of Wednesday 8 February at 6pm for the opening of a solo exhibition by artist Nicole Clare Fraser – Making Space: Photographic Traces of Absence, Stillness and the In-Between in Public Spaces” reads the invite.
Making Space explores banal and commonplace empty spaces, non-places, liminal spaces, and ordinary, inanimate objects
experienced as a state of ‘emptiness’. The visual language is an important element, interrogating perceptions of ‘neutral’ or ‘objective’ ways of seeing. The body of work reflects the absence and stillness of lockdown Cape Town.
Fraser has been working with elements of ‘Absence, Stillness and the In-Between in Public Spaces’ in her artistic practice for some time, this body of work did not stem from the sudden emptiness of space, but instead the abandoned places she photographed presented a unique opportunity relevant to her artistic thesis while devoid of their usual bustle. These photographs embody not only their immediate subject matter, but contain a depth of meaning relating to human presence versus absence.
There will be an opening address by Annabelle Wienand at 18:45 that you won’t want to miss. The exhibition is on until 11 March 2023.
Please note that DAOR Contemporary is closed to the public for the hanging of the show until the opening at 6PM on the 8 March 2023. You can contact DAOR for any catalogue requests ahead of the opening
WHAT: Nicole Clare Fraser – Making Space
WHERE: DAOR, Contemporary, Coode Crescent, Port of Cape Town, Cape Town, 8001
WHEN: Opening 8 February at 18:00 – 11 March 2023 | Walkabout: 2 March 2023 | 17:00 | First Thursdays Silo District
INFO: T +27 71 624 7130 | +27 64 941 3316 | E info@daor.co.za | Visit | Instagram
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About Nicole Clare Fraser
Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1989, Nicole Clare Fraser studied at the Michaelis School of
Fine Art, the University of Cape Town. She graduated in 2012 with a BA in Fine Art Majoring in
Photography. Nicole’s first introduction to the darkroom was during her 11th year at high school
where she took art and photography as two of her school subjects. It was here that her intrigue and
sensitivity toward the medium developed. Since school she continued with darkroom work at
University and thereafter has completed Darkroom Photography and Hand Printing Workshops with
the highly regarded and Master Black and White printer, Dennis Da Silva, in Johannesburg. In 2018
Nicole had her first solo exhibition, a quiet place, at the gallery of the ORMS Cape Town School of
Photography where she lectures in Darkroom and Analogue Photography. Currently, Nicole works
as a teacher in wet darkroom techniques and printing at FET and tertiary institutions in Cape Town.
Nicole graduated with a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from the University of Cape Town in 2021.
